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Big Cartel Stores in the United States

Updated Mar 6 2026

There are 88,432 live Big Cartel stores in the United States.

In this report, we'll cover the following essential statistics on Big Cartel stores in the United States.

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Big Cartel Growth in the United States

  • Big Cartel stores in the United States decreased -27.6% quarter-over-quarter in 2025 Q4.
  • Big Cartel stores in the United States increased 1426% year-over-year in 2025 Q4.

Here is Big Cartel's quarter-over-quarter growth in the United States.

Quarter
Active Stores
2020 Q3
81,974
2020 Q4
83,812
2021 Q1
87,612
2021 Q2
8,779
2021 Q3
8,718
2021 Q4
8,617
2022 Q1
8,570
2022 Q2
8,334
2022 Q3
9,011
2022 Q4
8,505
2023 Q1
8,433
2023 Q2
8,479
2023 Q3
8,557
2023 Q4
8,338
2024 Q1
8,164
2024 Q2
7,889
2024 Q3
7,827
2024 Q4
8,003
2025 Q1
121,550
2025 Q2
121,854
2025 Q3
122,151
2025 Q4
122,106
2026 Q1 (to date)
88,432
Active Stores by Quarter

Note: the store counts displayed in this section are based on actual historical store counts.

It's hard to know exactly when a Big Cartel store was first created but we use a heuristic combining DNS and WHOIS data that provides a reasonable approximation.

Top Categories For Big Cartel Stores In the United States

Here is the breakdown of industry verticals for Big Cartel stores in the United States.

  • 26.4% of Big Cartel stores in the United States sell Apparel products.
  • 11.9% of Big Cartel stores in the United States sell Arts & Entertainment products.
  • 10.5% of Big Cartel stores in the United States sell Beauty & Fitness products.

Social Media Usage On Big Cartel Stores In the United States

Ecommerce brands use social media sites to engage with millions of consumers. Instagram and Facebook are the dominant social media sites for ecommerce stores, by far, with Twitter, Pinterest and YouTube also having notable usage.

  • Instagram is used by 39.9% of Big Cartel stores in the United States.
  • Facebook is used by 16.8% of Big Cartel stores in the United States.
  • Twitter is used by 8.8% of Big Cartel stores in the United States.
Type
Stores
Instagram
35,258
Facebook
14,898
Twitter
7,817
YouTube
2,132
Pinterest
2,108
Tiktok
2,062
Facebook Group
386
Soundcloud
68

Contact Information On Big Cartel Stores In the United States

Email remains an extremely popular communication channel for merchants. Many merchants also provide a phone number so that their customers can reach them instantly.

  • 3% of Big Cartel stores in the United States have an email on their website
  • 1% of Big Cartel stores in the United States provide a phone number on their website
Type
Stores
Email
2,339
Phone
1,310

States With The Most Big Cartel Stores In the United States

It's relatively easy to identify the country in which an ecommerce store operates. However, very few ecommerce stores provide a location to the state-level or city-level and even fewer provide a street address.

Here is the state distribution of Big Cartel stores in the United States. Note that we're only showing the top 15 locations here but you can see the full list within Store Leads.

  • 804 Big Cartel stores in the United States are based in California.
  • 366 Big Cartel stores in the United States are based in New York.
  • 322 Big Cartel stores in the United States are based in Texas.
State
Stores
366
322
255
188
172
110
102

Cities With The Most Big Cartel Stores in the United States

Here is the city distribution of Big Cartel stores in the United States. Note that we're only showing the top 15 locations here but you can see the full list within Store Leads.

  • 85,324 Big Cartel stores in the United States are based in Unknown.
  • 330 Big Cartel stores in the United States are based in Los Angeles.
  • 211 Big Cartel stores in the United States are based in New York.

Number of Employees for Big Cartel stores in the United States

  • 100.0% of Big Cartel stores in the United States have Unknown employees.
  • 0.0% of Big Cartel stores in the United States have 1 - 9 employees.
  • 0.0% of Big Cartel stores in the United States have 10 - 24 employees.

Here is the breakdown of Big Cartel stores in the United States by the number of employees.

Employees
Stores
Unknown
88,403
1 - 9
9
10 - 24
6
25 - 49
5
50 - 99
3
100 - 249
2
250 - 999
3
1000 - 4999
1

Top Shipping Carriers For Big Cartel Stores In the United States

  • 6.2% of Big Cartel stores in the United States ship by USPS.
  • 1.2% of Big Cartel stores in the United States ship by UPS.
  • 0.8% of Big Cartel stores in the United States ship by Fedex.

Here are the top shipping carriers for Big Cartel stores in the United States.

Shipping Carrier
Stores
USPS
5,480
UPS
1,083
Fedex
687
DHL
86
Canada Post
54
Royal Mail
18
Australia Post
11
Correos
10
China Post
6
Japan Post
6

Top-level Domain Distribution For Big Cartel Stores In the United States

.com is the most common top-level domain, by far, for world-wide Big Cartel stores. Some countries have been faster than others to adopt alternate (such as country-specific) top-level domains.

  • 96.4% of Big Cartel stores in the United States have a .com domain.
  • 0.6% of Big Cartel stores in the United States have a .net domain.
  • 0.5% of Big Cartel stores in the United States have a .store domain.

Here is the top-level domain distribution for Big Cartel stores in the United States.

Top-level Domain
Stores
.com
85,267
.net
487
.store
461
.shop
398
.org
385
.co
264
.us
237
.art
211
.online
81
.studio
54

Top Big Cartel Stores In the United States

Here are the top stores in the United States ordered by worldwide store rank.

Name
Domain
Rank
Created
Museum of Death
60,128
2016/12/30
www.thenewyorksewingcenter.com
67,461
2019/08/23
Black Label Skateboards
82,770
2016/12/30
of Montreal
98,706
2022/03/11
STRFKR
116,979
2016/12/30

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